Extend Unemployment Assistance Act of 2021

To amend the CARES Act to extend certain unemployment compensation provisions, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Labor and Employment

Extend Unemployment Assistance Act of 2021

This bill extends pandemic unemployment compensation provisions set to expire on September 6, 2021, until February 1, 2022.

Extended provisions include

benefits to covered individuals who are not eligible for regular unemployment compensation or traditional extended benefits,
the $300 weekly benefit increase,
waiting week benefits, and
federal reimbursement of short-time compensation.

The bill also increases the maximum duration of compensation from 79 weeks to 100 weeks.

2021-09-17
Introduced in House
2021-09-17
Introduced in House
2021-09-17
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2021-09-17
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2021-09-17
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2021-09-17
Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

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